Adolescent decoration, by Isidore Tillers
Germany-based Australian Isidore Tillers revisits her childhood bedroom: I went home a few months ago. And by home I don’t mean my beloved Sydney. Despite spending a good part of my childhood, as… Read More
Category Archive: lifestyle
How to go to a festival and not be a fuckwit
Going to a festival is HARD WORK. There’s set times to balance, mental weather conditions to endure, potent beverages to be consumed in dangerous quantities, police dogs to avoid, fake tan to be applied,… Read More
Top 10 craziest ever proposals
Before your dream wedding can flawlessly unfold there must be a proposal. And after too many Hugh Grant rom-coms during our teenage years, we’ve all come to expect the perfect engagement. It isn’t… Read More
Kinder, Star Wars & forced perspective
Imagine if Yoda landed in Australia today? Would he head to Circular Quay? Check out all those hippy-dippy shops in Newtown? What about if Darth Vader found himself Downunder? What would he do? To… Read More
Art: Venice and the Biennale
Somethingyousaid.com’s Carol Bowditch checked out the 55th incarnation of the Biennale in Italy’s watery city: The romance of a city drowned in water, with neat winding lanes, no cars and chocolate shops in excess had initially… Read More
A meditation on joy via a Welsh Elvis Festival
Somethingyousaid.com’s Tom Spooner spends quality time in Wales with some Elvis impersonators: Joy takes you by surprise. It can hit you like a freight train or rise up inside you like bubbles blown in… Read More
We won a Pedestrian Blogster Award!
Somethingyousaid.com’s Founder and Editor, Bobby Townsend, enjoys the sweet smell of victory: I was thirteen when I last won something. It was at a football camp. I won the keepy-up competition. So for… Read More
Travel: Berlin for Cheapskates
While recently covering the Berlin Festival for Something You Said, Carol Bowditch set aside a few days to take in the German capital. Follow her comprehensive list of grand things to do and you’ll still have… Read More
Flowers: An Expression of Love
Flowers: An Expression of Love Not Reserved for Valentine’s Day Flowers, one of nature’s most beautiful offerings, are a tried-and-true gift idea for many occasions. However, while giving them for holidays is a… Read More
Gay or Nay? How to have good Gaydar
According to Something You Said’s Tammy Potakh and Ty Tong, having a good Gaydar is important these days if you’re in the single-and-struggling-to-mingle gang. Here are their thoughts on how to improve your… Read More